Roy Gutman

Roy Gutman is currently a Jennings Randolph senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, and a Washington-based correspondent for Newsday. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for his reporting in Bosnia and is author of Banana Diplomacy: The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua 1981-1987 and A Witness to Genocide.

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Grew up in Hartford, Connecticut. Education: Haverford College ('66), studied history, and then the London School of Economics – degree in international relations.

NB: there are numerous questions pertaining Gutman's reporting from Bosnia/Croatia during the early 1990s. His report on Jadranka Cigelj launched the "rape camps" hysteria. He is known to have associated with Cigelj for a long time, and she happens to be a senior propagandist in the Croatian government, and before that in the war propaganda department in Croatia. She was co-chairman of the rightwing HDZ party.


 * Chair, Crimes of War Project
 * Advisory Council, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
 * Edward S. Herman regards him as one of The New Humanitarians

Related Sourcewatch

 * Diana Johnstone's Fool's Crusade -- this book contains an extensive discussion of Gutman's less than honorable activities during the wars in former Yugoslavia.

Resources:

 * Conversations with History; Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley